Trump pitches tax reform in North Dakota

On the same day that President Trump was touting tax reform in North Dakota, the president's Special Assistant Ivanka Trump joined Utah Senator Mike Lee and the taxpayer advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform to make a push for tax cuts targeted to families.

Americans must call on Congress to strongly oppose Trump's tax and budget plan, which is nothing more than a $5 trillion tax giveaway paid for by cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, disaster aid and more. Both red states have vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, who Republicans could try to get to back an overhaul of the USA tax system.

Watch live in the video above. Heidi Heitkamp. Senior White House officials said Tuesday that the support of Heitkamp, who's up for re-election next year in a state Trump carried, is something they are optimistic about winning.

"We are the highest taxed nation in the world - that will change", he added. He meets bipartisan House and Senate leadership at the White House for tax reform talks and then delivers remarks in North Dakota as part of a series of events prompting his tax cutting plan.

"I think most importantly, I want to hear how will his tax plan and the Republican tax direction impact middle class, middle America", he said.

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During his first tax speech last week in Missouri, the state's Democratic Sen.

On Sunday, Trump wrote an opinion article on tax reform that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with an eye toward pressuring Sen. Claire McCaskill stayed away.

From what we know about the president's tax plan it has two goals, to provide tax relief for citizens and simplify the tax code and lower the corporate income tax rate. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. Trump said, after Heitkamp came on stage.

Trump's trip takes him to friendly territory: He won North Dakota by 36 points previous year and has championed policies that benefit its energy sector. John Hoeven and Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer, weighing a bid to challenge Heitkamp. She thanked North Dakotans for their past support, noting, "you treated us very, very well in November".

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Hurricane Harvey has wreaked havoc in Texas along the Gulf Coast, causing oil refineries to pre-emptively shut down production. A gas shortage in the USA could spill over into Canada, McTeague told Global News .

Increases in personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and in nonresidential fixed investment were larger than previously estimated. The economy grew 2.1% in the first half of 2017 but economists said it was unlikely growth this year would meet Trump's goal.

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EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos noted that the judiciary is independent in all EU states in which there is rule of law. The UN's migration agency reports that 125,860 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea so far this year.

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Washington and Kabul have long accused Islamabad of turning a blind eye to the issue of safe havens for Afghan militant groups. Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday agreed to remain engaged and build closer cooperation between the two countries.

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Mikel Obi , Ondion Igalo, Victor Moses and Iheanacho were the goal scorers for the Nigerians on the day. Nigeria's Super Eagles have secured a big victory over neighbouring Indomitable Lions of Cameroon .

Responding to a question, Mattis said North Korea could do something like that (nuclear test) on relatively short notice. In a rare move, South Korea's military released footage of its own missile tests that were conducted last week.

So, we need to put politics aside and we're going to be urging Congress to get both of those things done as quickly as they can. Mnuchin's spending-debt ceiling pitch resulted in a quick and favorable response from Congress's top two Democratic leaders.

He said, "Post-demonetisation that number went close to 54-55 per cent but it has now come back to 45-46 per cent". The RBI yesterday said about 99 per cent of Rs 15.44 lakh crore demonetised currency came back into the system.

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